Length: 6 Minutes

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Summary: Master the art of camera tracking in Blender with this quick VFX tutorial! Tracking footage to solve for a 3D camera is a an essential part of many VFX shots. In this tutorial, I try to clear up some of the confusion about tracking, and simplify the process down to 6 easy steps. Enjoy!

Length: 12 Minutes

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Summary: In this tutorial, we take a look at how to crush a Coke can with your mind powers! Using simple stop motion, masking, and editing, we are going to quickly create this effect from Netflix's awesome show, Stranger Things, right inside of Blender!

Length: 11 Minutes

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Summary: This quick tutorial helps get your feet wet with 2D compositing in Blender. We start with doing a simple one-point-track in the motion tracking section of Blender. Then using the import images as planes add-on, we parent a death star image to our track. After that, its a simple matter of compositing the image with our footage, and adding some masks to increase realism. Enjoy!

Length: 21 Minutes

Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Summary: This quick tutorial is jammed pack with tips and tricks to guide you in the Blender VFX world. We start this tutorial by tracking the eyes in our footage and then creating a mask to use as our glowing eyes. Then we create a simple rig to use as the lasers that will extend from the eye sockets. We set a simple emission material for the lasers, and in the compositor we add glows blurs, and displacements to get the full effect of heat vision.

Length: 1 Hour 12 minutes

Level: Intermediate

Summary: This in-depth texturing tutorial will guide you through the process of modeling a simple wood crate and adding the necessary textures to the model to make it look realistic. After watching this tutorial, you will know how to UV unwrap a cube, apply details to image textures, and layer multiple UV maps to add different decals and grunge maps.

Length: 45 Minutes

Level: Advanced

Summary: In this in-depth VFX tutorial learn how to composite stock footage in Blender to add epic visual effects to your footage. Using the Luminance key node in the compositor we will isolate the background from our footage in order to composite in an explosion and smoke assets provided by ActionVFX.

Length: 27 Minutes

Level: Intermediate

Summary:

In this quick VFX tutorial, use Blender's video sequence editor to do some fancy editing. After some quick masking work, combine everything together to create the illusion of using The Force. All done in Blender! Throw this effect in your short film or use it along side of Light it Up. May The Force be with you!

Length: 1 Hour 5 Minutes

Level: Intermediate

Software: Blender 2.77

Summary:

In this in-depth tutorial, learn how to become Spiderman by creating a Spiderman web slinging effect using Blender. The skills learned through this tutorial include: modeling, lattice deform animation, and compositing. Create awesome Spiderman effects and share it all over the internet!

Summary:

In this in depth tutorial, learn how to edit video using the blender video sequence editor. Perfect for mastering VFX in blender!This tutorial is part of an extra training tutorial in the Blender VFX learning pack, "Light it Up", to purchase the full pack click here.

Length: 12 Minutes

Level: Intermediate

Software: Blender 2.75

Summary:

In this quick Blender VFX tutorial, learn how to manipulate the light in your scene to add anamorphic style lens flares, then polish off your scene with some cinematic color grading, all inside the blender compositor.

In this Blender tutorial learn how to model, sculpt, and texture a realistic island in Blender.

Length: 10 Minutes

Level: Intermediate

Software: Blender 2.73

Summary:

Explore all the wonderful possibilities of green screen or blue screen color keying in blender! In this blender tutorial, I go over a basic node setup for compositing video with a keyed out background.